Kingston DT Mini Fun 2gb – Write Protect error?
November 30th, 2007
Ugh.
It was working properly last night. Everything that is important to me is in there. All my files, all my important files! Ugh. This morning when I opened my pc and tried to open my flash drive to check my mail since I use Mozilla Thunderbird portable, it said it wasn’t formatted. I was surprised and annoyed. That was working last night and now everything I worked on it gone. Some of the files I don’t even have a back-up saved in my pc. Damn it. The survey data I worked on was there! F***. I’m just so pissed off at the moment. All I can do is curse myself for not having them backed-up.
The weird thing is that it kept telling me that it was write protected… Sheesh, it doesn’t have a write-protect lock for Pete’s sake! I looked and looked and its not there at all. ****
I searched the internet and I found some sites that had people complaining of it as well. One person even took apart his disk but still it didn’t work. Sheesh. I tried all the suggestions in all the forums and threads I found but nothing worked at all.
This sucks big time.
November 30th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
have you tried repairing the drive using a software (i forgot which one)
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December 3rd, 2007 at 2:00 pm
dang… i feel your pain, Nika. this happened to me also… different brand nga lang. i think i dropped it or something…
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January 10th, 2008 at 12:18 am
I have the same problem as Ugh but I can’t found how to solve it. Any Ideas to erase information or to fortmat the drive? Thanks.
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Legion reply on October 21st, 2008:
Put the drive in your usb port and reinstall windows while it is loaded, but instead of completing the installation when it comes up asking which partition you want to install it on it will show your USB drive also, slect that partition and format.
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January 10th, 2008 at 2:58 am
Hi Sergio,
Unfortunately I still haven’t found a solution to it.
So its still useless to me right now. (I think I even lost it already. LOL.)
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January 22nd, 2008 at 11:49 am
i have the same problem with my kingston DT Mini… Ive tried to reformat it, pero di pwede…all my files and pics are here too!! no back up also…. hay…
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April 4th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
the same problem by me. it seems there is a problem in compatibility between DTMF USB 2.0 construction and USB 1.1 port of the pc/laptop. when i connect it to the pc/laptop with USB20, everything is OK, writing, reading – no problem.
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July 4th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
same problem my usb is kingston dt100.ok guyz just burn it and never buy kingston producst its suck
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July 15th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
I found this on another site and it realy worked. It erases everything from it but make it work after that But pay big attention DO NOT have any other device conected to USB port as it is going to erase all from it:
My kingston flash drive had the following symptoms:
- Could read data
- Couldn’t write/format (“write-protection error”)
- Every file had the “archive” flag set. (attrib command in dos prompt)
It was fixed running the low-level formatting utility from Apacer website.
http://www.apacer.com/en/support/downloads/Repair_v2.9.1.1.zip
(named “HT203 Handy Steno 2.0 Repair Tool” – or XXXX Repair Tool, for the software is model/manufacturer independent.)
Be careful to have only the flash drive you need to repair connected to your computer, as the software is quite ‘interfaceless’, and doesn’t even allow you to choose which drive you want to format – seems to me it assumes the first removable drive available.
Wish you guys the best of luck.
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Nika Catbagan reply on July 17th, 2008:
eeeeeeeeeeeep!!! I think I <3 you! I think my card is finally useful again. I don’t get the write-protect message when I tried placing files on it. O.o
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Martin parish reply on August 26th, 2008:
tx- it`s realy work!
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Kharen reply on September 1st, 2008:
This is a very useful advice. Mine worked after using it. Thanks to mr arthur. Ive searched so many forums and blogs for the right solution, i really glad this one caught my attention. Thanks again
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Amr reply on September 28th, 2008:
Really thanks for help
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joan reply on October 1st, 2008:
Thanks a ton ………..
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Mario reply on October 27th, 2008:
This solution worked perfectly, thank you.
I got the “write protection” error intermittently, whenever I copied many files, after a bunch of files my Kingston 8gb data traveller became write protected. Unplugging and plugging back would solve the problem for a while.
The site seems trustworthy, so I suppose the download was no trojan.
arthur iakab on July 15th, 2008 8:30 pm I found this on another site and it realy worked. It
It was fixed running the low-level formatting utility from Apacer website.
http://www.apacer.com/en/support/downloads/Repair_v2.9.1.1.zip
[[ read the instruction on that post please]]
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herck reply on November 22nd, 2008:
Yes!!!! It works!!! Thanx man for your kind help!!!
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ali reply on January 26th, 2009:
thx
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thilanka reply on July 4th, 2009:
Thank you very much arthur iakab. It worked for me. I wonder what caused the problem. Hope it was not because of a cluster corruption. Thanks for the help.
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July 17th, 2008 at 12:12 am
[...] posted around November last year about how my Kingston DT Mini Fun 2gb flash disk suddenly went wonky and deleted all my files telling me I had to…. I was just checking something a while ago when I saw a comment to that entry by someone named, [...]
July 21st, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Great software! I prepared to throw my Kingston DataTraveler 2GB in trash when I found this post. Repair software salve “write protect error” problem. Thanx a lot!
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August 5th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
This software was great after several months of mayhem i have finally make it work again thanks a lot, God bless you…(^_^)Vm
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August 6th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
nice program, i save the program just in case it happen again. tnx a lot.!
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August 11th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Omg. This software didnt work! It said ‘no usb flash disk connected’ .
Pleeeease.
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August 15th, 2008 at 8:59 am
Can i ask some question?
send you give me the VB script to do this one?
Thanks in advance………(^_^)Vm
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August 15th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Wahaha…
Sorry for the wrong gramma.. I mean can you send me..
hehehe… “Lutang eh”
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August 31st, 2008 at 5:44 am
Man, this was awesome!, I was able to repair a Kingston DataTraveler 8GB!, thank you very much
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Kharen reply on September 1st, 2008:
hello. how were you able to repair your Kingston Data Traveler? Mine got corrupted or something, it keeps on saying write protected. and even when i tried to reformat it, it doesn’t work coz of the write protect. Thanks
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davex reply on September 3rd, 2008:
I used the app posted by arthur iakab. Here’s the link:
http://www.apacer.com/en/support/downloads/Repair_v2.9.1.1.zip
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September 8th, 2008 at 12:38 am
YYYYeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaah.. oh you sexy man… it worked… i d shag you on the spot.. at once… blinded and hairless.. thanks a bunch from Syria.
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September 10th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
hi gay …… plz send s/w of kingston pendrive….
i’m getting error of write protected
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September 15th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Thank u very much arthur. the my pen drive is working after using u r software.
Thank u very much
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September 17th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
but it says “USB Flash Disk did not found” what will i do???its making me crazy!!!
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September 21st, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Hi!
Wasn`t able to format it using Windows. Luckily that software from Apacer`s site worked. Tough when it was formatting the drive in the end it gave error message “format failed”. Then i replugged the stick, Windows didn`t managed to install driver for it and i thought it`s dead. But then i replugged it again and Windows recognized it. When i tried to browse the drive i got message that it wasn`t formatted, i formatted it with Windows and it`s done! Works! 
I had “write protected” error on Kingston Dataraveler 4GB. Was searching for solutions quite a while until i came here
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September 26th, 2008 at 2:00 am
BUENISIMO!!!! SOLUCION PARA EL PEN!!! FUNCIONA!!(Lo escribo en español para que lo encuentren los buscadores y los que no entienden inglés….)
Con correr ese pequeño exe (ver link arriba) se soluciona el problema del pendrive cuando no lee, no escribe, no nada…no se puede formatear, el scandisk y eso no funciona..
Despues de tantos intentos, este programita restaura y hace que funcione la memoria usb.
Instrucciones en castellano:
-bajar el .zip
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Gracias al foro este!!!! GROSO EL QUE PUSO EL LINK!! PARA TODOS LOS ARGENTINOS… NO ES CHAMUYO!! FUNCA DE NUEVO!!! (hasta había mandado mail a kingston)
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September 26th, 2008 at 2:04 am
Instrucciones en castellano:
– bajar el .zip
– descomprimir
– conectar solo el pendrive a formatear
(se va a borrar todo el contenido del disco extraible, detecta automáticamente, no da a elegir unidad.)
– ejecutar el .exe
– el soft va a detectar y formatear automaticamente
GRACIAS!!!!! AHORA ME ANDA EL PENDRIVE!!!
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September 26th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
can i use this one in san disk too?? i also have a similar problem and it really sucks!!
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September 26th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
i tried the link a lot of times on my SD but it just says” USB not found”
help?? pls..
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October 4th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
i downloaded the software from apacer however when i run the program it says ‘NO FLASH DRIVE PRESENT. please assist me. in recovering my drive
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October 8th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Thanks Arthur… 2 weeks man searching for solution and finally problematic USB Kingston Traveler 2GB “write protect” errors solved… The Apacer Repair_v2.9.1.1 did the job.
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October 9th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Wooow awesome man. Its working again. Thanks
http://www.apacer.com/en/support/downloads/Repair_v2.9.1.1.zip
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October 11th, 2008 at 9:47 am
it really work!!
tnx tnx tnx!!
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October 14th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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October 23rd, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Thanks Arthrur
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October 23rd, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Thanks. It works. Confirmed!
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October 23rd, 2008 at 11:24 pm
THANKS MAN! IT WORKS PERFECTLY! Apacer Low Level formating tool FTW!
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November 2nd, 2008 at 2:15 pm
arthur iakab i love u yaar your idea and software works yaar thanks
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November 4th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
HIIIIIIIIII MY TRANSCEND PENDRIVE IS NOT WORKING CAN U PLZ TRY TO SOLVE THIISSSSSSSSSSSS
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November 4th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
NAAA NAAA NOT OPENING ATALL
WHEN INSERTING TO USB PORT IT IS NOT READING AND SHOWING ANYTHING
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November 10th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
thanks in advanced. its great soft.
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November 11th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Thanx for the small Apacer software. Genius.
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November 17th, 2008 at 1:29 am
i’m also getting the flash drive not found error when i try to run the repair utility. anyone figure this out?
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November 19th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Awesome! I tried every trick in the book, but i cudnot get it to format. Interestingly, i still cant figure out WHAT was the script running? Coz there is no process, no regedit, no nothing. Kudos to the software and to the script aswell
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November 20th, 2008 at 9:46 am
arthur,our information very usefull 4me thnx a lot
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November 20th, 2008 at 9:47 am
arthur,thiz information very usefull 4me thnx a lot
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November 23rd, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Thanks a lot mr.Arthur !
It worked for me too
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December 1st, 2008 at 4:08 pm
After I plugged it in a PCMCA USB hub I got the write protection error… I was very scared I’ll loose my drive.. which I love ‘coz is nice and small. I got here and took the utility from Apacer… and it worked with my Kingston DT Mini Mingo Edition. Thank you!!!!!
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December 12th, 2008 at 6:04 am
thanks for saving ma kingston:)
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December 13th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
thxs a lot.Its work!!!…Have nice d
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December 14th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Thanks you guys, all worked successfull !! I was looking for a program which could help me with this sucker-flash… Couldn’t find it anywhere…
http://www.apacer.com/en/support/downloads/Repair_v2.9.1.1.zip
Nice decision !!
With best regards from Russia ))….
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December 16th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Thanks a lot. I had the same problem with my Kingston DataTraveler 2GB for a looong time. As someone mentioned above, after formatting with the program a formatting failure message was displayed. When I tried to use the pendrive in Windows, the system displayed that the disk needed to be formatted so I went ahead and formated it and it worked. Thanks.
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December 18th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
hi
tanx for such a great LLF software
i found like 12 dt mini 2 gb right in front of electronic store
and i took them home and test them and all of them was given “write protect error”
with this software now i have 24gb flash
tanx
) =)) tanx
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December 23rd, 2008 at 8:29 pm
thanxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx a lottttttttttt
it worked nicely and made my pendrive useful
thanxxxxxx
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December 26th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
thanx my write protect problam is solved thanx again
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December 28th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
my imation nano swivel flash drive 4GB had an error while i was trying to save/delete files…said there that the drive’s write protected and must be removed first…i tried reformatting but still the same error…tried the software mentioned here but it said “format failed”…help!!!!pleases!!!
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December 29th, 2008 at 3:17 am
Hello mr arthur
thank you for every thing you may gave it to us specially this program it’s really worked with me great job man thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
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January 12th, 2009 at 8:44 am
Thanks!!!
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January 14th, 2009 at 1:16 am
Ya u r the macho man…
http://www.apacer.com/en/support/downloads/Repair_v2.9.1.1.zip
thanks for the link
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sheraz reply on March 16th, 2009:
it worked write with my kingston 512 MB. great work by the developer of the application.
Thanks for the link too.
sheraz from Pakistan
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January 14th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
The http://www.apacer.com/en/support/downloads/Repair_v2.9.1.1.zip doesnt work on my kingston. It says : “Flash disk not found”
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January 15th, 2009 at 7:23 am
My friend, if every body can be just like you,…then the wold could be a better place to live, Thank you very much….
Im your fan Number 1
just use this link and thats it
http://www.apacer.com/en/support/downloads/Repair_v2.9.1.1.zip
Powerfull link
Esta chida tu tirada, me late por curada
Bye
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Paul Kevin reply on January 15th, 2009:
I already tried Repair_v2.9.1.1 and it doesnt work. I think I will just format it using Windows installation CD
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January 18th, 2009 at 4:15 am
download recovery tool from transcend website. unlike the name “recovery tool” , it does not recover anything, but format’s the undetected transcend flash drives (like the ones which could not be repaired by the Repair_v2.9.11). link here. http://www.transcendusa.com/Support/DLCenter/index.asp?#Detail
you may have to search and locate your product. it worked for me.
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January 27th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
thank a lot for the solution….
now my usb flashdisk can work normally,,,
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January 31st, 2009 at 2:08 am
Yes its working
my kingston 2gb dt100 have a fuckin problem it is write protected
i use http://www.apacer.com/en/support/downloads/Repair_v2.9.1.1.zip and problem is solve in under 1 min
thanks buddy..
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March 1st, 2009 at 2:14 pm
THANK YOU!!!
Good thing I did not throw out my kingston FD! thank god for google too. IF not i would not have found this forum.
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May 27th, 2010 at 7:45 pm
Oh thank u!!!! Vvveerrryy muchhh
my flash working again, you are miracle man.. Thanx arigato kesuwun trima ksh gracias perfecto software..
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